abused & rescued ↣ nathan sykes

New Pointe Shoes

Nathan's POV:

I was feeding the twins when the door opened to reveal Kayla with her usual bubbly, giggly smile. I smiled at her as I finished burping Alexander. I set him on the carpet with Anna-Grace to play. I stood up and have Kayla a kiss and hug,

"Hey baby I wanted to ask you something." I said. Kayla nodded and batted her eyelashes. I picked up the old shoe box that I found while I was cleaning the closet out. I pulled out a pair of old looking ballet shoes. Kayla gasped and took the shoes from me,

"My old pointe shoes! Oh my gosh I haven't seen these since the twins were born!" She said excitedly. I smiled in confusion,

"What are pointe shoes?" I asked carefully, tryin not to mispronounce the word,

"Oh their special ballet shoes. Pointe shoes were conceived in response to the desire for dancers to appear weightless and have evolved to enable dancers to dance en pointe, on the tips of their toes, for extended periods of time." She explained. I smiled and nodded. Kayla smiled,

"Gosh I've been in ballet since I was three...I practiced a little after the twins were born but I couldn't find these. And their too worn out. I'm gonna go buy a new pair!" She grabbed her purse and keys again,

"I'll be back in 30 minutes baby." She called. I nodded. The door closed and I smiled. I thought it was great that she wanted to continue one of her many passions. Ballet dancing. It was amazing how many passions and opportunities she had and how she wanted to follow all of them.

After about 35 minutes later I had put the babies to sleep and Kayla came through the door looking very excited, carrying a medium paper champagne colored bag. I smiled as she sat down on the sofa next to me,

"You look very happy. I like my baby happy.." I whispered into her ear. Kayla giggled as as opened the bag. Inside was an x-small pastel purple leotard, a pair of x-small sheer pink tights and a brand new pair of size 3 pointe shoes. Kayla lightly kicked her feet,

"I'm gonna go change!" She giggled. Kayla ran to the hallway bathroom and can back out 5 minutes later in her adorable ballet outfit. The leotard had a little skirt which fit her beautifully. She also was wearing a silver necklace with a small ballerina charm. I smiled and stood up as I wrapped my arms around Kayla's waist,

"There's my beautiful ballerina." I whispered. Kayla giggled and kissed me before she sat down on the couch and started to put her brand new pointe shoes on. The way she put them on looked very confusing. She crossed the ribbons over the top of her foot. Then she brought them to the back of her ankle on either side. She crossed them at the back and brought them back to the front.

Then she brought one ribbon to her inner side of her ankle and held it there. Then she brought the other ribbon around the back of her ankle again, until it met the first ribbon on her inner ankle.

And lastly she tied a double knot in the hollow area between her ankle bone and her Achilles tendon. Then she tucked the ends of the knotted ribbons under the wrapped ribbons.
But somehow he did both shoes in about 3 minutes. Kayla stretched her legs out in front of her, her toes pointed before standing up and looking down at her feet,

"Baby will you do me a favor and grab one of my special hair ties and then a regular one please?" She asked me. I nodded and kissed her cheek before I walked to the bathroom and opened one of the drawers in the bathroom and grabbed what Kayla asked for. A regular brown hair tie and a light purple scrunchy.

I walked out to the living room where Kayla had moved the furniture so there was a massive rectangle in the middle of the room. I handed the ties to Kayla and she ties her hair in a ponytail with the regular tie then tied her cute little scrunchy over it. I sat down and carefully watched Kayla do some sort of warm-ups with her feet.